子夜吳歌

長安一片月，
萬戶擣衣聲;
秋風吹不盡，
總是玉關情。
何日平胡虜？
良人罷遠征。

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• by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "子夜吳歌" [ author's text checked 1 time]

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• Also set in English, a translation by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872 - 1945) , title 1: "Under the moon", from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China, published 1909 by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir.
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Under the moon

Under the crescent moon's faint glow
The washerman's bat resounds afar,
And the autumn breeze sighs tenderly.
But my heart has gone to the Tartar war,
To bleak Kansuh and the steppes of snow,
Calling my [husband]1 back to me.

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¹ Bantock: "lover"

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Authorship

• by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872 - 1945), "Under the moon", appears in A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China, first published 1909 [ author's text checked 1 time]

• a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "子夜吳歌"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Under the moon", published 1918 [voice and piano], from Songs from the Chinese Poets: Set I, no. 3. [
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